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Twelve days and counting

11/25/2013

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The road to retirement is long and torturous.  The fact that I've scheduled a selection of use-it-or-lose-it vacation days among the actual working days is both a positive and a negative.  On the positive side, I can practice being retired.  On the negative, I need to go back to work the next day and catch up.

My replacement arrived on schedule.  He is young, bright, and experienced.  And, he has the annoying habits of youth.  Remembering numbers the first time he hears them.  Learning the computer programs quickly and with ease.  Not being totally exhausted at the end of a not-really-long day.  I'll bet he can eat anything he wants and not get fat, too. He is also likable, personable, and politically savvy.

I'm approaching this life change with eagerness and a touch of anxiety.  Over the last 43 years, I've have exactly 6 months when I wasn't working.  I wonder if my plans will fill my days and my mind.  

I'm looking forward to starting my next novel.  The problem is that usually, by this point, the story is playing and replaying itself in my brain.  I've been so busy with the job--and not able to turn it off when I'm home--I haven't laid out the story.  But first I need to launch the lord.  

Now that's exciting.

GEB
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Robb
11/26/2013 06:37:57 am

Please keep publishing how you're coping with it all so I have a guinea err I mean role model because I'm right on your heels!

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Gregg E. Brickman
11/26/2013 01:43:51 pm

Well,Robb, I've always wanted to be a role model.

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